| Haiti Noir Contributor(s): Danticat, Edwidge (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1936070650 ISBN-13: 9781936070657 Publisher: Akashic Books, Ltd. OUR PRICE: $17.06 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Anthologies (multiple Authors) - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Collections & Anthologies - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - International Crime & Mystery |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2010922715 |
| Series: Akashic Noir |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.2" W x 8.2" (0.65 lbs) 300 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A wide-ranging collection from the beloved but besieged Caribbean island...The 36th entry in Akashic's Noir series (which ranges from Bronx to Delhi to Twin Cities) is beautifully edited, with a spectrum of voices. --Kirkus Reviews This anthology will give American readers a complex and nuanced portrait of the real Haiti not seen on the evening news and introduce them to some original and wonderful writers. --Library Journal Danticat has succeeded in assembling a group portrait of Haitian culture and resilience that is cause for celebration. --Publishers Weekly A solid contribution to the noir] series, especially for its showcasing of a setting not commonly portrayed in crime fiction. --Booklist Danticat has put together a collection possessing classic noir elements--crimes and criminals and evil deeds only sometimes punished--but also something else, perhaps uniquely Haitian too. --Los Angeles Times The characters that emerge in the anthology are divergent figures, alienated by exile, thriving in the diaspora and devastated by limited choices. Their stories are multi-layered, thrilling and necessary. --Ms. Magazine Who can ever judge how important Danticat has been to Americans' understanding and re-evaluating Haiti's position and role in the hemisphere? Not just as a novelist and essayist in her own right, but as editor and guiding force behind this collection of short stories and the re-publication and English translation of the Chauvet triptych, the Haitian-born Danticat has brought her country's literature back into the world of English-speakers. Filled with delights and surprises, Haiti Noir, taken as a whole, provides a profound portrait of the country, from its crises to its triumphs, from the tiny bouks of the countryside to the shanties of the sprawling bidonvilles. Danticat herself has a lovely story in the collection, and permits two distinguished foreign writers on Haiti, Madison Smartt Bell and Mark Kurlansky, to slide in there among all the brilliant Haitians. --Daily Beast Haiti Noir...showcases the diversity, humour, beauty and originality of 'Haitian' writing. --Wasafiri (UK) Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book. Brand-new stories by: Edwidge Danticat, Rodney Saint- loi, Madison Smartt Bell, Gary Victor, M.J. Fievre, Mark Kurlansky, Marvin Victor, Josaphat-Robert Large, Marie Lily Cerat, Yanick Lahens, Louis-Philipe Dalembert, Kettly Mars, Marie Ketsia Theodore-Pharel, Evelyne Trouillot, Katia D. Ulysse, Ibi Aanu Zoboi, Nadine Pinede, and Patrick Sylvain. From the introduction by Edwidge Danticat: I began working on this anthology about a year before January 12, 2010, when Haiti was struck by its worst natural disaster in over two hundred years. The world knows now that more than two hundred thousand people died and over a million lost their homes in Haiti's capital and the surrounding cities of L og ne, Petit-Go ve, and Jacmel. As I am writing these words, survivors remain huddled by the thousands in displacement camps, most shielding themselves from intermittent rain with nothing but wooden posts and bedsheets. Even before the earthquake, life was not easy in Haiti. There was always the risk of dying from hunger, an infectious disease, a natural disaster, or a crime. But there was also hope, laughter, and boundless creativity. Haitian creativity has always been one of the country's most identifiable survival traits. Whether expressed in vibrant and colorful paintings, double entendre--filled spiritual or party music, or the poignant, humorous, erotic, lyrical (and yes, also dark) short stories and novels of its writers, Haiti's more nuanced and complex face often comes across in its arts... I can honestly say that, in spite of the difficult circumstances in Haiti right now, I have never felt a greater sense of joy working on any collective project than I have on this book. |
Contributor Bio(s): Bell, Madison Smartt: - Madison Smartt Bell is the author of twelve novels and two story collections. In 2002, his novel Doctor Sleep was adapted as a film, Close Your Eyes. Bell's eighth novel, All Souls' Rising, the first volume in his Haitian Revolution trilogy, was a finalist for the 1995 National Book Award. Toussaint Louverture: A Biography appeared in 2007. Since 1984 he has taught at Goucher College, along with his wife, the poet Elizabeth Spires. He lives in Baltimore.Fievre, M. J.: - M.J. Fievre's short stories and poems have appeared in P'an Ku, The Mom Egg, Healthy Stories, Writer's Digest, Caribbean Writer, Pocket Smut, and 365 Days of Flash Fiction. She is a regular contributor to the online publication the Nervous Breakdown and a contributing editor for Vis.A.Vis magazine. She is the founding editor of Sliver of Stone magazine.Large, Josaphat-Robert: - Josaphat-Robert Large was born in Haiti in 1942 and moved to the United States in 1963 during the Duvalier dictatorship. He then studied English at Columbia University. A poet and novelist, he writes in French, Creole, and English. He is the author of five novels and four collections of poems. His novel Les terres entourées de larmes (Paris, 2002), was awarded the Grand Literary Prize of the French Caribbean in 2003.Victor, Gary: - Gary Victor was born in Port-au-Prince in 1958. He is a longtime contributor to Le Nouvelliste, Haiti's best-known daily newspaper. He began his career by writing fiction for young adults in the youth edition of the newspaper. He has published nine collections of short stories and twelve novels, including Saison de porcs (Pork Season) and Le cercle des époux infidels, (The Adulterer's Circle). He has also written for theater, television, and cinema.Victor, Marvin: - Marvin Victor was born in Port-au-Prince in December 1981. He is a painter and filmmaker. In 2007, he won the Young Francophone Writer Prize in France.Danticat, Edwidge: - Edwidge Danticat was was born in Haiti and moved to the United States when she was twelve. She is the author of two novels, two collections of stories, three books for children and young adults, and three nonfiction titles. In 2009, she received a MacArthur Fellowship. Her most recent books are Eight Days and Create Dangerously.Cerat, Marie Lily: - Marie Lily Cerat is an educator and writer, and cofounder of the group Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees. Cerat has published a West African folktale in 1997; a commentary for NPR as part of the 2001 Conference on Racism in South Africa; and two essays in the Ten Speed Press book Vodou: Visions and Voices of Haiti. She is a contributor to Haiti Liberté and at work on a novel, In the Light of Shooting Stars.Dalembert, Louis-Philippe: - Louis-Philippe Dalembert is a novelist, short story writer, poet, and essayist born in Port-au-Prince. His books have been awarded the Villa Médicis and Casa de las Américas prizes, and he has been honored with grants from DAAD in Germany and UNESCO-Aschberg in Israel. Since his departure from Haiti in 1986, Dalembert has lived in many cities, including Paris, Rome, Port-au-Prince again, Jerusalem, and Florence. He now lives in Berlin.Saint-Eloi, Rodney: - Rodney Saint-Éloi was born in Cavaillon, Haiti. He is a poet and memoirist, as well as the founder of Memoire d'encrier, a Montreal-based publishing house. His poetry collections include Graffiti pour l'aurore (Graffiti for the Dawn), Pierre anonymes (Anonymous Stones), and J'ai un arbre dans ma pirogue (I Have a Tree in My Canoe). His memoir on the January 12, 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Goudougoudou, was published in France in the fall of 2010.Kurlansky, Mark: - Mark Kurlansky has written twenty books of fiction, nonfiction, and children's books, and has translated a novel by Emile Zola. Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World, Salt: A World History, and Nonviolence: The History of a Dangerous Idea are among his best-known books. As a newspaper reporter, he covered Haiti and the Caribbean for eight years, and he continues to write on Caribbean themes.Lahens, Yanick: - Yanick Lahens is the author of three short story collections, including Tante Réisa et les dieux, La petite corruption, and La folie était venue avec la pluie; and two award-winning novels, Dans la maison du père and La couleur de l'aube, which has been translated into Italian and German. Her next book, Failles, about the earthquake in Haiti, will be published in France in 2011. She lives and works in Haiti.Mars, Kettly: - Kettly Mars was born in Port-au-Prince in 1958, and she started writing at the beginning of the 1990s. Since then, she has won two literary prizes and her work has been translated into English, Italian, Dutch, German, and Japanese. She is a member of the Prix Littéraire Henri Deschamps.Pinede, Nadine: - Nadine Pinede is a graduate of Harvard University and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. She earned her PhD at Indiana University and is an Elizabeth George Foundation Scholar at the Whidbey Writers Workshop MFA program. Her writing has appeared in numerous publications, including the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Sampsonia Way, Radcliffe Quarterly, Literary Newsmakers, The Other Journal, A Lime Jewel, and Soundings Review. She is working on a novel.Sylvain, Patrick: - Patrick Sylvain is a poet, writer, photographer, and social critic. He works as a Haitian-language and -culture instructor at Brown University. He has been published in numerous anthologies and journals, and his work was recently featured on PBS Newshour as well as on NPR's Here and Now. His bilingual poetry collection, Love, Lust & Loss, was published in 2005 by Mémoire D'Encrier.Theodore-Pharel, Marie Ketsia: - Marie Ketsia Theodore-Pharel was born in Port-au-Prince and now lives in Homestead, Florida, with her family. Her writing has appeared in Compost Magazine, Onyx, African Homefront, and in the United States, edited by Edwidge Danticat.Trouillot, Evelyne: - Evelyne Trouillot was born, lives, and works in Port-au-Prince. Her first novel, Rosalie l'infâme, was awarded the Prix Soroptimist de la romancière francophone in 2004. She has published three more novels, three collections of short novels, and two books of poetry--one in Creole and one in French. Her latest novel is La mémoire aux abois. Her work has been translated into German, Italian, and English. She has also written for theater.Ulysse, Katia D.: - Katia D. Ulysse was born in Haiti. She holds a master's degree in education from the College of Notre Dame, Maryland. Her stories and essays have appeared in Phoebe, the Caribbean Writer, Poui, Macomère, Wadabagei, Calabash, Haiti Progres, The Butterfly's Way (edited by Edwidge Danticat), Mozayik (an all-Creole anthology), and other journals and anthologies. She is currently finalizing Mouths Don't Speak, a collection of pre- and postquake stories. She lives in Baltimore.Zoboi, Ibi Aanu: - Ibi Aanu Zoboi was born in Port-au-Prince as Pascale Philantrope. Her writing can be found on the web, in literary journals, and anthologies including the award-winning Dark Matter: Reading the Bones. She is a recipient of a grant in literature and writing from the Brooklyn Arts Council for the Daughters of Anacaona Writing Project, a program for Haitian teen girls, and she has completed a young adult fantasy/science-fiction novel based on Haitian mythology. She lives in Brooklyn. |